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Brownell, W. C. (William Crary), 1851-1928 |
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Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 |
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Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 |
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Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927 |
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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 |
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Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 |
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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 |
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 |
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 |
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 |
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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 |
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 |
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King, Clarence, 1842-1901 |
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Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 |
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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 |
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Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 |
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Martin, Edward Sandford, 1856-1939 |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 |
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 |
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 |
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Trent, William P. (William Peterfield), 1862-1939 |
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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 |
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Winthrop, Theodore, 1828-1861 |
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Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 |
Title |
The Oxford Book of American Essays
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Contents |
Introduction -- The ephemera: an emblem of human life / Benjamin Franklin -- The whistle / Benjamin Franklin -- Dialogue between Franklin and the gout / Benjamin Franklin -- Consolation for the old bachelor / Francis Hopkinson -- John Bull / Washington Irving -- The mutability of literature / Washington Irving -- Kean's acting / Richard Henry Dana -- Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Uses of great men / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Buds and bird-voices / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bread and the newspaper / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- On a certain condescension in foreigners / James Russell Lowell -- Preface to "Leaves of Grass" / Walt Whitman -- Americanism in literature / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Thackeray in America / George William Curtis -- Our march to Washington / Theodore Winthrop -- Calvin / Charles Dudley Warner -- Five American contributions to civilization / Charles William Eliot -- I talk of dreams / William Dean Howells -- An idyl of the honey-bee / John Burroughs -- Cut-off Copples's / Clarence King -- The Théâtre Français / Henry James -- Theocritus on Cape Cod / Hamilton Wright Mabie -- Colonialism in the United States / Henry Cabot Lodge -- New York after Paris / William Crary Brownell -- The tyranny of things / Edward Sandford Martin -- Free trade vs. protection in literature / Samuel McChord Crothers -- Dante and the Bowery / Theodore Roosevelt -- The revolt of the unfit / Nicholas Murray Butler -- On translating the odes of Horace / William Peterfield Trent.
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Language |
English |
LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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Subject |
American essays
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EBook-No. |
40196 |
Release Date |
Jul 10, 2012 |
Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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